Intrusion Detection Contract Job Trends in Reading

Intrusion Detection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 82 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 2 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.35% 0.64% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.50% 3.47% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £416 £503
25th Percentile £850 £422 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +105.60% -27.08% -
75th Percentile £949 £447 -
90th Percentile - £449 £606
Berkshire median daily rate £900 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +105.60% -27.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.61% -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £87.46 £75.67
% change year-on-year - +15.58% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 80 202 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.99% 18.36% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 86 134
10th Percentile £192 £350 £205
25th Percentile £400 £416 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £541 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +10.97% +2.68%
75th Percentile £570 £608 £600
90th Percentile £621 £644 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £56.25 -
25th Percentile - £66.62 £66.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.46 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.11% +18.99% -
75th Percentile - - £75.25
90th Percentile - - £76.29
Berkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £75.24 £73.50
% change year-on-year -26.90% +2.37% +276.92%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in Reading

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Security
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Darktrace